former president bill clinton spoke with in the last hour. before him york mayor but michael bloomberg address the assembly. both men remembering catch as the city's " quintessential mayor " with an outsized personality that matched his integrity. ed koch served as new york city's mayor from 1978 to 1989. he was 88 years old. >> the pentagon as laying off up to 46,000 temporary workers as it braces for automatic budget cuts to kick in next month. 9.4 percent budget cuts across the board are due this year after the so-called fiscal cliff. lawmakers made a last-minute deal in january of folly to start date until march 1st. the cuts are expected to hit defense particularly hard, slicing $490 billion from the department's budget over the next decade. twitter says hikers may have gained access to data on some 250,000 users. it is the latest social me aside to be had by internet security attacks. twitter says it sent e-mail notices users affected after the hacker's gave access to names, e-mail addresses and passwords. the attack follows recent tax